As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'

MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery.

I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.

After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.

Who saidI can't wear my ConverseWith my dress, well babyThat's just me!

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude.

Its very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesnt make sense!

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'